Chapter 902: Seeking Help

Within the Time Domain, Su Che slowly floated in front of the five Divine Emperors. He exerted his energy and tapped each of their defensive shields from outside their bodies.

This action terrified the five Divine Emperors, who thought Su Che intended to kill them. Although they were merely duplicates of Divine Emperors and wouldn’t truly die, losing one of their main bodies would reduce their overall strength by at least one-third, a loss that would take millions of years to recover.

But after a few moments, they realized there was nothing abnormal within their duplicates and understood that Su Che hadn’t meant to kill them. Those taps were merely warnings—signifying that killing them would be effortless, so they should not provoke him.

Huh…

The Time Domain then dissipated. Su Che said nothing and slowly flew into the endless ocean of meteorites, disappearing without a trace.

None of the five Divine Emperors dared to stop him. They were unsure about his true nature as an outsider—whether he would actually kill them or not…

Retreating into the Sea of Meteorites, Su Che hid atop a giant meteorite. Without hesitation, he sent mental signals over an area of several thousand miles behind him: “I already know that you are the Heart of the Venerable born from the Holy Radiant Universe. But I don’t understand why you’ve been following me. If you can express your intentions, it would be best if you could communicate with me. You should know that I bear no ill will toward you. As a Chaos Traveler, I don’t need to use you to enter the outer Great Chaos Realm.”

Su Che spoke to it this way because, since the Heart of the Venerable had been able to punish Valon twice, it must possess sufficient intelligence—at least the ability to distinguish right from wrong and good from bad.

Moreover, even though it hated Valon, it hadn’t gone so far as to kill him, which could be interpreted as indicating that the Heart of the Venerable was quite kind and not cruel.

After saying this, a few moments later, Su Che received a rather strange mental message: “Gugu… gugu… gugu…”

It was rhythmic and melodic, like the strange sound of some instrument, yet he couldn’t understand what it was trying to convey.

“Could it be that it can’t even speak mentally?”

Su Che found it hard to understand. After all, as long as an entity has intelligence and thoughts—whether it’s a living being or a naturally formed magical artifact—it should be able to communicate mentally.

It doesn’t need to speak in perfect rhythm; at least expressing the basic meaning should be possible, right?

“Gugu… gugu… gugu…”

But this Heart of the Sage could do nothing but make “gugu” sounds.
“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
Su Che sent another telepathic message to it: “If you trust me, then appear in front of me. I can teach you how to speak through certain methods.”
The “gugu” sounds stopped, and there was no response for a long time. It was easy to guess that it was hesitating.
Seizing the opportunity, Su Che continued, “You should know that it’s you who’s been following me. I’ve never bothered you or had any ill intentions toward you. If you don’t want to trust me, then stop following me and stop causing me trouble. Does that make sense?”
“Gugu… gugu…”
Perhaps finding Su Che’s words reasonable and irrefutable, after a dozen breaths, the Heart of the Sage gradually took shape dozens of feet away—a pool of irregularly shaped liquid, large enough to fill a big vat, translucent with a very light pale blue hue, floating in midair and trembling continuously, looking quite eerie.
It slowly drifted over, very slowly, with great caution, clearly still wary of Su Che.
Su Che remained calm, waiting for it to get closer before sending a thought: “Obviously, the first thing to teach you is how to communicate with people… Do you mind?”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand as if to touch it.
“Gugu.”
It responded, seemingly agreeing.
Su Che’s palm touched it—it was soft, smooth, but not cold, about the same temperature as a normal human’s. It wasn’t surprising, as many forms of spiritual water in the mortal world and the immortal realm resembled it.
A large amount of mental information was transmitted to it—basic language knowledge. Even a foolish pig could use this to tell stories fluently.
“Gugu…”
Shortly after, it made a few habitual “gugu” sounds, then sent another mental wave: “Thank you.”
“Not bad. You’ve finally learned to speak.”
Su Che nodded inwardly and said to it, “Since you’ve learned to communicate with people, tell me—why have you been following me, an outsider? You must know I’m a traveler from the Great Chaos Realm, right?”
“I know.”
Having just learned to speak, it needed to organize its thoughts slightly before answering: “It’s because you’re from outside, so you won’t… eat me.”
“Eat you?”
Su Che asked, “Are you afraid of being eaten by those divine emperors?”

It suddenly turned into a translucent big-headed doll and nodded vigorously: “I didn’t want to be eaten, so I hid in the Inner Chaos Realm for a very long time, not daring to come out at all.”
I see.
Su Che immediately understood that it already possessed its own thoughts and complete survival instincts. It had stayed hidden in the Inner Chaos Realm for countless years to avoid being devoured and merged by any God Emperor, keeping all the God Emperors in the Heavenly Realm from finding it.
It wasn’t until recently, when this outsider entered the Holy Radiance Universe and was discovered by it, that it saw Su Che as a lifeline and followed him closely.
“Please, help me.”
It transformed into a pair of big, watery eyes and stared at Su Che pitifully: “I don’t want to be eaten. Please take me away.”
It was like a child who had barely escaped from a human trafficking den and was desperately hoping for the help of a kind uncle.
“Poor little thing.”
Lao He, who always called himself an unparalleled demon lord, had one huge weakness: he had almost no resistance to such cute and adorable creatures. Right then, he was rubbing his forehead in the Immortal Prison and muttering, “Even though I know this little guy is pretending to be pitiful, I can’t bring myself to reject it.”
In this regard, Su Che was much more ruthless. He didn’t agree to its request right away but pretended to ponder: “I came to your Holy Radiance Universe for two reasons. First, I want to learn the art of creating divine avatars. Second, I want to figure out how this ‘divine power system’ was created.”
“I know, I know!”
The big-headed doll replied hurriedly, “Although I don’t know how to create avatars, I do know how to create divine power. I am called the Heart of the Venerable, which represents the core essence of the power attributes in this universe.”
“You can create divine power?” Su Che was delighted.
“Yes, I can!”
It nodded vigorously, its huge head making one worry it might fall off its thin neck. But in an instant, a special energy spread rapidly from it.
Su Che absorbed this energy and, after a quick check, confirmed that it was indeed the internal energy cultivated by the Holy Radiance deities: divine power.
“In just a blink, it can create so much divine power. Truly worthy of being the Heart of the Venerable that so many God Emperors would fight to obtain.”
Su Che made up his mind right away: This big-headed doll could stay with them.
If that’s the case, no one else is allowed to take it away!

Lao He also sneered darkly, “The goal of creating divine power has been achieved. Next, we can use this opportunity to capture a dozen or so Divine Emperors. Then we can just leave.” What Lao He meant was that by using the Heart of the Venerable as a bait, many Divine Emperors would naturally come looking for trouble, allowing them to be captured and their clone skills extracted. Thus, both tasks of entering the Holy Radiance Universe would be completed. If they could leave before the laws of the universe imposed punishment, everything would be fine.

Basically, Su Che thought the same way, so he said to it, “Alright, I can help you and also take you out of this universe.”

“Great, great!”

The big-headed doll nodded repeatedly, repeatedly thanking him.

“I’ll give you a name—Xiao Hui.”

Su Che said casually, “Next, we’ll head to the Heavenly Realm, from there enter Chaos, and leave the Holy Radiance Universe.”

“Go to the Heavenly Realm?”

Xiao Hui nestled against Su Che’s leg, holding onto the hem of his clothes with a tiny transparent hand and looking up, “There are so many Divine Emperors in the Heavenly Realm—they all want to eat me!”

“Let them come. With me here, no one can take you away. Don’t worry,” Su Che said with a laugh.

Of course, Xiao Hui couldn’t truly feel at ease; it was still quite afraid of the Heavenly Realm. But in such matters, it had no right to argue. All its hopes rested on Su Che—wherever he went, it had no choice but to follow closely.

Su Che had also considered sending this little guy to the Immortal Prison for greater safety, but he was still concerned about what the laws of the Holy Radiance Universe might do. At least for now, it wasn’t the right time.

Besides, having just met, the little guy couldn’t fully trust him 100%. Asking it to enter his personal space now would also be very difficult for it.

Su Che turned around and continued flying toward the area where the magnetic storm was. Xiao Hui reverted to a completely invisible state once again, but Su Che could clearly feel that the little guy kept holding onto his clothes, hanging on him like a heavy burden…

“Master, how about I go out and take care of it?”

Lao He planned to use his puppet body to go to the Immortal Prison and carry the burden of Xiao Hui. After all, a puppet body wasn’t considered real life and could be regarded as a magical artifact, making it less likely to attract the attention of the laws of the Holy Radiance Universe.

“No rush. We’ll discuss it when we get to the Heavenly Realm.”

Su Che’s gaze was cold. His extended divine sense showed that the five Divine Emperors hadn’t left and were still guarding the magnetic storm. Clearly, they hadn’t given up yet.

The five divine emperors were still discussing their next move—whether to give up now or to keep following Su Che, waiting for an opportunity… Seeing Su Che return, they immediately guessed that he had made up his mind to head to the Heavenly Realm.
“The Heart of the Venerable is on him!”
They all sensed the Heart of the Venerable very clearly, and their greed surged instantly. They longed to pounce on him right away and seize it. Yet, fearing Su Che’s formidable strength, they didn’t dare take action.
What should they do?